The Global Economy and Business Research Center of the CIEN-ADEX Exporters Association reported that, at the end of the first three months of the year, the agribusiness sector reported 1,499 Peruvian export companies, representing a variation of 4.2% compared to similar period last year.
Likewise, of the universe of 5,127 Peruvian export companies (+8.3%), It was identified that the chemical sectors (823), mining (676), metallurgical steel (289) and agriculture (221) also had a representative amount in the first quarter.
In addition, it was highlighted that microenterprises (66.4%), small (29%) and medium-sized companies (0.9%) accounted for 96.3% (4,939) of the total. Meanwhile, large companies accounted for the remaining 3.7%.
However, although mypes occupied a large percentage of the total, they only concentrated 9.4% of the value, since Regarding the US$ FOB amount, of the US$15,828 million exported by Peru, 89.2% was in charge of large companieswhile 8.5% of small, 1.4% of medium and 1% of microenterprises.
Lima was the department with the highest number of exporting companies
Regarding the origin, Lima was the one with the largest number of companies (3,014), followed by Puno (524) and Piura (368). The opposite happened with Amazonas, ApurÃmac and Moquegua, where 17, 13 and 10 exporting companies were registered respectively.
On the other hand, in relation to destinations, 57.3% (2,938) arrived at only one; while 4% (206) did it at ten or more than ten. In this context, the main destination was the United States (1,423), followed by the countries of the European Union (1,205) and Chile (1,022).
Source: Larepublica
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